After discovering my husband’s affair, his mistress’s husband approached me with an offer I never expected. “I have a fortune in the nine figures,” he said calmly. “Just say yes. Tomorrow morning, we’ll go to the city clerk and make it official.”

late to major transactions,” I said.

A faint breath of amusement escaped him, gone so quickly I might have imagined it. He handed me a pen. “Good. Let’s begin.”

There were no flowers. No music. No one asked if love had brought us there.

We signed where we were told to sign, answered the necessary questions, and stood before a city employee who had probably continue reading …